Josh Hawley has revealed a major problem with Trump’s Secret Service detachment. This comes as Congress is about to reveal its investigative report.
Hawley said that the lead agent in Trump’s protection team had failed one of her Secret Service exams. The Washington Examiner reports:
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) reported Thursday that the Secret Service’s lead advance agent in charge of former President Donald Trump’s trip to Butler, Pennsylvania, where the assassination attempt on his life occurred, failed one or more of her training exams.
“The Trump rally was undermanned. It was understaffed. They did not have people who had experience on it,” Hawley said on Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime. “Now this advance agent, I’m told, may have failed one or more of her training exams and was known not to be a top quality agent. I mean, this is absurd.”
Hawley’s revelation also brought up the question: why did the Secret Service put this agent in charge of a former President and current candidate’s team? Real Clear Politics continues:
SEN. JOSH HAWLEY: This is what’s so hard to understand. If this individual had failed one or more of her training exams, if she was known not to be really one of the Secret Service’s top agents, she’s in the Pittsburgh office. Why was she put in charge of the entire trip?
The whole thing, she was in charge of the whole works, from the time the president landed to the time he went to Butler, it’s just totally inexplicable. One other thing — I’m told by people who are close to and have knowledge of the Secret Service’s own internal investigation that the Department of Homeland Security is leaning on the Secret Service not to comply with document requests to Congress. This is really getting to be outrageous. The American people need the truth here.
This failure in the Secret Service is hopefully justincompetence on the federal government’s part. More sinister motives, however, cannot be dismissed until the full release of the Congressional report.
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